Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Churches Could Lose Tax Exemption Over Gay Marriage
American Thinker ^ | June 30, 2015 | Daniel John Sobieski

Posted on 06/30/2015 10:40:19 AM PDT by raptor22

Lost in the celebrations over universal gay marriage, like abortion, being deemed a right found in the “penumbras and emanations” of the Constitution is the chilling effect the ruling has on religious liberty. In a telling exchange between the Obama administration’s Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito, detailed by Tom Blumer at Newsbusters.com, in which Verrilli admitted that churches could lose their tax exemptions if they refuse to perform gay weddings:

Justice Alito: Well, in the Bob Jones case, the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax­exempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating. So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed same­-sex marriage?

General Verrilli: You know, ­­I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is­­ it is going to be an issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; amthinker; catholic; catholicchurch; catholics; churches; firstamendment; gayagenda; gaymarriage; gayrights; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; lesbians; lgbt; religiousfreedom; religiousliberty; samesexmarriage; transgender; waronreligion; waronreligison
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last
To: raptor22

Of course they could go after tax exemptions. The question is what to do about it, if anything. Churches sure do trade a lot of free speech for a tax deduction that most people can’t use anyway.

Our emphasis is wrong. We get wrapped up,in how to fight political outrages rather than figuring out ways to go around them and render them as irrelevant as we can.


21 posted on 06/30/2015 12:25:05 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: raptor22

They have already, but the ostriches have to lift their head up to really see the truth of it.

All these churches that clamored to get that little piece of paper, the 503c certificate, have become part and parcel of governmental operations. I remember when a new ‘satellite’ church of a megachurch on Long Island, NY, 50 miles to the east, received their 503c. They threw a party!! I tried to explain to this ‘Christ for the nations’ school graduate, that he just became another government entity.

In the quest for that paper, ya’s did it to yo’selfs!


22 posted on 06/30/2015 12:26:13 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: taxcontrol

The civil side is what changed in the first place. So in my opinion they should get 2nd round, if at all, to show that the faith’s take on it is the correct and obviously more important one.

Freegards


23 posted on 06/30/2015 12:29:23 PM PDT by Ransomed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

GAY MARRIAGE PING


24 posted on 06/30/2015 12:49:52 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

Forbidding a pastor — or any person of faith— from speaking on political issues — violates the prohibition clause to begin with. We’ve been letting the left Bork us.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 1:53:09 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: raptor22

And so it begins.......


26 posted on 06/30/2015 1:53:13 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: raptor22

The thing many churches have in their favor it that many of them will not perform weddings for people who are not members or regular attenders.

In almost every church I’ve attended, there have been people who don’t go to church, don’t have any affiliation, are living together, who for some reason or other want a church wedding. The churches would not perform weddings for someone who walks in off the street looking for one.

Precedent has already been set.


27 posted on 06/30/2015 2:11:09 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trod Upon

Yet America will very well be a missionary field for Christian missionaries from the southern nations.


28 posted on 06/30/2015 3:22:31 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson